Collaborative Community-Based Teaching Clinics at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College: Addressing the Needs of Local Poor Communities

Chiropractors' Characteristics Associated With Physician Referrals: Results From a Survey of Canadian Doctors of Chiropractic

“…1 Despite the success of many initiatives, [2][3][4][5][6] Canadian doctors of chiropractic (DCs) are mainly considered as providers of complementary and alternative medicine and therefore do not share formal referral arrangements with medical doctors (MDs). A study of integrated medical systems has shown that chiropractic care is the complementary and alternative medicine approach that receives the most MD referrals.…”

Chiropractic Care and Public Health: Answering Difficult Questions About Safety, Care Through the Lifespan, and Community Action

“…159 A number of chiropractic colleges have clinical training programs to provide care for at-risk populations. 160,161 The patients typically seen through these clinical training programs often demonstrate the value of a number of public health initiatives for our interns and frequently need interventions for smoking cessation, weight management, nutritional education, and community support for everything from housing to mental health care issues. These clinical opportunities provide an enormously fertile environment for intern education and provide a unique educational opportunity where the initiatives and impetus of public health moves beyond the didactic into the clinical realm.…”

Community-based free clinics: opportunities for interprofessional collaboration, health promotion, and complex care management

“…[1][2][3] Health care services are offered for no cost to low-income, uninsured, or underinsured individuals with the overarching goal of decreasing health disparities. 4 The Council on Chiropractic Education requires that an institution ''conducts and supports service activities congruent with its mission, goals, and objectives.…”

“…They also provide students the educational experience of managing patients who may not traditionally enter a chiropractic clinic. 2 These clinics also provide opportunities for interprofessional education and collaboration. Approximately half of the medical schools in the United States have one or more student-run clinics that teach students clinical skills, medical humanism, systems-based practice, collaboration, and multidisciplinary approaches and leadership skills.…”

“…6 Interprofessional collaboration provides educational benefits for students and improves patient outcomes. 2,7 Healthcare profession students who plan to work as providers in interprofessional collaborative practices must learn in interprofessional settings. 8 Community-based clinics can be excellent examples of such settings where students collaborate with other health care professionals to provide chronic disease management.…”